Doesn’t look right for Roman. Is it?

Early this morning #Whimbrel POTSKAR landed in Guinea, W Africa, after flying 7000+km from St-Petersburg, Russia. It took POTSKAR 5.5 days of NON-STOP flight, varying altitude from 10s of meters over the Baltic and the Med, to >5km over land. #ornithology

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One reported doing so at St.Bees, Cumbria a couple of years ago, not sure if it is still doing so.

Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist. Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo says on LinkedIn that the company is joining Amazon to help “bring truly personal, agentic AI to even more customers.” Bee makes a $49.99 Fitbit-like device that listens in on your conversations while using AI to transcribe everything that you and the people around you say, allowing it to generate personalized summaries of your days, reminders, and suggestions from within the Bee app. You can also give the device permission to access your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events to help inform its AI-generated insights, as well as create a searchable history of your activities.

Nope.

Yew??

My regular reminder to the media: stop using the term "wild camper" for these idiots. By definition, a wild camper leaves no trace, and you'd never, ever have cause to write a story about one. These are vandals, please label them as such.

RSPB reports worst year for Hen Harrier persecution Record numbers of Hen Harriers have been illegally killed or gone missing in suspicious circumstances over the last five years. A new RSPB report shows that the majority of the 102 recorded incidents during that time occurred on or near grouse moors. Additionally, it reported that 2023 was also the worst recorded year for persecution of Hen Harriers.

Record numbers of Hen Harriers have been illegally killed or gone missing in suspicious circumstances over the last five years:

While kayaking around Scotland I’ve had a few surprises from dolphins, nothing too disturbing though. However, I’ve never been able to paddle fast enough to catch up or disturb any.

That tree must surely be considerably older than 150 years!

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Press release from Defra: Toxic lead ammunition banned to protect Britain’s countryside Press release from Defra (10 July 2025): TOXIC LEAD AMMUNITION BANNED TO PROTECT BRITAIN’S COUNTRYSIDE New ban on use of lead in ammunition to protect iconic wildlife and clean up the nation’…

Finally! This is an historic win for all those who have spent decades trying to get the govt to act.

Non-compliance is expected to be high so effective monitoring & robust enforcement must follow.

Defra press release + commentary from me ⬇️

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#booksky

MPs literally saying stuff that makes no sense and isn’t true - they seriously have no idea. These are all lies!

Pro-grouse shooting Labour MP Sam Rushworth received £10,000 donation from local grouse moor gamekeeper group Perhaps the most surprising pro-grouse shooting voice at Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on driven grouse shooting was Sam Rushworth MP, the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland. Wild Justice descr…

Oh! His support for driven grouse shooting during Monday's debate now makes a lot more sense!

FYI, @oliviablakemp.bsky.social

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This map categorizes European forests according to their use. Unmanaged forests are super rare. Finland and Sweden are timber plantations. France has created Landes de Gascogne, a match box forest on the Atlantic coast. Britain got rid of their forests . Source: buff.ly/cQBsb9x buff.ly/EbK7dvz

It's been nearly two months since our government petition calling for an end to the badger cull reached 100k signatures. This means it should be considered for a debate.

Guess what....we've heard NOTHING.

Share if you think the government should end the cull for good!

Map showing density of sheep across Europe. UK, Ireland, Sardinia and Greece stand out as high

Feels like a map for @irishrainforest.bsky.social, but also look at the state of Wales, Cumbria and Northumberland! Could be so much more rainforest.

Fortunate to witness an astonishing spectacle at the beach tonight: tens of thousands of (mainly Small) white butterflies pouring in over the sea, as far as you could see. Pulses of butterflies swept in-off everywhere, an extraordinary sight.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
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New report highlights the ongoing criminal persecution of Hen Harriers on UK driven grouse moors Press release from the RSPB (26 June 2025): NUMBER OF HEN HARRIERS KILLED OR MISSING REACHES NEW HIGH Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing …

'Decades of evidence...has revealed that the targeting and illegal killing of Hen Harriers is almost exclusively associated with land managed for grouse shooting in the UK’s uplands'.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BanDrivenGrouseShooting

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#booksky

Mosedale surely, not Mardale?

WaderTales blogs were read in 80 countries in May.
The most widely downloaded tale highlights some of the latest results from wader/shorebird tracking:
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#ConservationScience🌍
Map shows tracks of one Whimbrel monitored for several years by Camilo Carneiro et al

You’re looking good too. Well done.

"If you go down to the woods today, it's not how it used to be..."

So many of our ancient woods have been felled for conifer plantations. But under the forest floors, their ghosts lie in wait.

Amazing new campaign to REWILD THE GHOST WOODS launched by @wildcard.land:

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The last shorebirds to leave the UK are Grey Plovers, heading northeast to Siberia.
Read more about these enigmatic waders in "Plovers from the north": wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/p...
Blog that summarises migration of UK waders:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w...
#UKbirding

A year in the life of a Common Sandpiper, with some stuff about Spotted Sandpipers too:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/n...
Published 4 May 2019, to promote book by Phil Holland
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#ornithology

There has been a lot of discussion recently about access and disturbance. A good time for a thread I’ve been meaning to write for ages. It’s about one simple thing humans could do to reduce the impact of our disturbing effects on wildlife, particularly birds. 1/

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
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